Photo: Jeremy Charles Samantha Crain has been named Rolling Stone 's "Artist to Watch" : Hometown: Shawnee, Oklahoma Backstory: The 26-year-old Crain is a born-and-bred Okie with Choctaw heritage; she plays with a revolving cast of musicians, including fiddle player Daniel Foulks. While attending Oklahoma Baptist University, she registered for a semester-long songwriting retreat at Martha's Vineyard. The experience helped Crain hone her craft, and after returning to Oklahoma, she went [...]
By: Brendan One of my favorite songs this past year has been "Hold On" by Alabama Shakes - it is now available for download as a free, legal mp3 on Amazon as part of the MTV Artists Sampler. Kodaline, Stars, ... Continue reading
Shawnee, Oklahoma singer-songwriter Samantha Crain recently released her third album, Kid Face on Ramseur Records. Of Choctaw Indian descent, Crain is an excellent story teller and contextualizes themes of loss, escape and love in her intimate and beautiful folk songs. Samantha is playing The Fire on July 19th. Go here for tickets and more information ... Continue reading
Here's Samantha Crain 's music video for "The Pattern Has Changed", off her new album, Kid Face . Video Platform Video Management Video Solutions Video Player The video was filmed by [...]
Photo gallery of Man Man, Murder by Death and Samantha Crain at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn (February 28th ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/photo s/man-man-murder-by-death-sama ntha-crain-music-hall-/
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Belle Mare : "The Boat of the Fragile Mind" [mp3] from The Boat Of The Fragile Mind EP (out April 9th) search for more Belle Mare posts at Largehearted Boy Destroy This Place : [...]
The Oklahoma Film & Music Office (OF&MO) has announced its plans for the 2013 South by Southwest Music Conference (SXSW) that will take place in Austin, Texas March 11, 12 & 13. Oklahoma's Buffalo Lounge , located at The 512, 408 E 6th Street (6th & Trinity), provides the state with its own venue, hosting three days of film, interactive, and music events. The goal is to provide exposure for participating Oklahoma companies and talent to a global audience. OklahomaRock.com will publish a running list [...]
Samantha Crain - Photo by Keisha Register I have been a fan of Samantha Crain's music for a while and I don't think I talk about her enough. She has a new album called Kid Face (I believe a reference to the fact that she is often perceived as younger than she is) and it has some pretty great tunes. She strikes me as the kind of person that I would want to know before I even knew her, ya know? I don't even know why I think this but I just do. It isn't odd [...]
The PlayStation 4 was announced today. The article talks about how the PS4 will be the most advanced gaming system ever. A processor faster than 99% of most computers. The highest resolution pixel count of any system. A faster network. Motion-capture. And, a new social media component. But the one thing they don't mention is if the games are any good. Everyone loves the bells and
The lineup for the main stage and second stage of this year's Norman Music Festival (April 25, 26 & 27) were announced today. Main Stage: The Joy Formidable , Big Sam’s Funky Nation , King Khan & BBQ Show , Defining Times , Mike Dillon , Josh Sallee , The Grown-Ups and Feathered Rabbit . [...]
The lovely Samantha Crain - former Halfway House alum - welcomes the release of her much anticipated album Kid Face today. The album was produced by John Vanderslice. Samantha visited us a while back and performed one of the tracks off the new album. Spin the first single purchase the album and watch the Halfway House Session. All @ once. Or @ least @ some point. Listen/Download: Samantha Crain - [...]
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A few of my favorite new releases this week (a ton of new music this wee), including the latest from Beach Fossils , Lady Lamb the Beekeeper , Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds , and STRFKR . As always, be sure to visit Largehearted Boy for more new music. What are your favorite new releases this week? Atlas Genius// When It Was Now web // facebook // twitter // soundcloud // shows // [...]
Samantha Crain releases her third full-length album, Kid Face , today on Ramseur Records. Purchase: iTunes | Amazon | SpinShop The songs were recorded at Tiny Telephone studio in San Francisco during June 2012, with producer John Vanderslice. "(Crain) exudes a maturity, grace and gravitas that goes beyond her years, and has an honest, if sometimes fictionalized vision that is totally void of clichés. While she has been compared to [...]
Oklahoma singer-songwriter revives a new kind of blues and it sounds twenty kinds of right. Ramseur Records, 2013 9.0 / 10.0 Since beginning as a critic, I have to admit to a certain...
Samantha Crain - Kid Face (February 19, Ramseur) - Third album of Americana-tinged folk/rock from the 25-year-old Oklahoma-raised songwriter follows up her acclaimed 2010 album You (Understood), a conceptual project with each song representing one particular personal interaction... Kid Face again mines Crain's uncluttered and assured songwriting and storytelling craft matched perfectly with a spare, no-frills production, courtesy noted Bay Area performer and studio maven John Vanderslice...Few of Crain's contemporaries can match her innate talent of marrying astute and sympathetic observational character-studies with simple yet compelling melodies...Watch the video for "Never Going [...]
Greetings. It gives us great pleasure to introduce you to our second Halfway House Music Podcast . Once again we are joined by Halfway House Sessions Audio Engineer – the always affable Peter Fox from Stone House Recording . During this episode of music and babbling nonsense we focus on the Halfway House Sessions . If you aren't familiar with our sessions here's the d.l.: Bands come in and record three tracks LIVE @ Stone House Recording . We record the audio/video [...]
Oklahoma's Samantha Crain will release her third studio LP, Kid Face, February 19 via Ramseur Records. In Crain's new video for "Never Going Back," all 3,800 frames of the clip were hand cut, then laid out in one long row. This resulted in a flip-book-styled video, with the camera panning at the speed of Crain's melodic voice. [...]
Track List: 1) PVT Homosapien Love and Defeat 2) Thao and the Get Down Stay Down We The Common City 3) Bjork Bastards Moon (The Slips Remix) 4) Parenthetical Girls Privilege Young Throats 5) Sin Fang Flowers Young Boys 6) Widowspeak Almanac Devil Knows 7) Darkstar [...]
vid Video: YouTube - Vimeo Photos: Flickr Audio: zip download (right-click, save as) This is another one of those painfully late Toad Sessions which crashed into the bottleneck created when we recorded five sessions in a very short space space of time at the end of 2011 and then ended up putting most of them on ice when the label took over my life in early spring. Nevertheless, this is a lovely [...]
Here's Samantha Crain 's music video for "Never Going Back". MP3: Samantha Crain - "Never Going Back" The video was filmed LAMAR+NIK on a white backdrop, edited, then printed out. All 3,800+ frames of video were hand cut and animated. Frames were then set in a row, filmed in one single take/shot, and later sped up to match the song. The song will appear on Crain's upcoming album, Kid Face , due [...]
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